Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-31

trades assemblies and labor organizations
-hy fighting for their lives. We hold
that there is an easier way than this.
We are sometimes charged with deny
inc the right of property. II Is not 80
We believe the Divine command, 'Ihon
shalt not steal" is tn" great law of social
well. being. Chou shalt not steal.
What does il mean? 1t means that You
shall no, steal from anyone and also that
Won will see 10 it that NJ one steals from
YOU. There are many ways OF steal
Ing II is not only stealing 10
take a mans money or watch
from his pocket, OF breaking into his store
Suppnse a caravan is tOiling along over "a
hot. sandy desert, and some enteTprlslng
individual, knowing the location OF a well,
gocs on ahead, and walls up the water
and when the caravan comes up, says:
"This is my well, and you cant have any
water unless You pay me Tor IT,. IhaI
would be stealing Just rs IL rs II ne
would hold out a weapon and say: tive
me all YOU have got. The right 0l prop
artv is not lust when by it what God IN
tended for the use of all is made the prop
erty of a few. 1t is not Just when one
man can charge another for the privilege
nj having a home. We adhere to the prln-
chile of the Declaration OF independence
that ''all men are created free and equal
and are endowed with certain inaleniable
rights, among which are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
THE RIGHT 70 LIVE
implies the equal right TO the use OF all the
materials necessary to liie-air, water ana
lond-aud no one generation has the rlght
to rive away this world, or any part OF 1t.
II only belongs to one generation Tor lts
lifetime. believe, with Thomas Jetier-
son. that "the earth belongs to the living
the dead have no claim. y And yet hetltIe
to land arises from the dead. Take New
York City and 20 back to the old Dutch
men. who got their titles from a king who
has been dead two hundred years. Had
these kings the right TO give away any
part of the world? Go into. ireland, where
the land titles came from rohheries com
mitted centuries ago. This Is 50 IN ing
land, too.
Man can not live without the increase
of land, aud labor witAuSt laud Is help
less. The men who command tine land,
command the effectiveness Of labor, ana
| therefore, its products. Therefore what
ever the landowner gets comes from
labor-and labor is robbed! This Is the
great r~emedy-thc primary fundamental
remedy. We are disinheritlng our children
In Ireland and England the majority OF
the children born nave no legal right to
live. Their parents must beg permission
70 live on the land, and in addition must
yet some one TO buy their labor-nnd then
they only get 4 part OF what thelr l'"or
produces. We are coming To the very
am thing over here. Many American
children are being born with no legal right
to live. Sensation What a farce 1t Is
10 say this is our own country; That's
So" when we don't own enough soil
To rest the sole of our feet upon, ana
vet we are the class who must hight Tor
our country if it ever comes To that hight
for the man who owns the land. The
man who owns the land Owns everything,
and all that labor gets is just enough to
live on.
Some of nv friends here remind me OF
the war and the abolition al slavery. We
did free them from one form OF slavery,
hut not from another. We did free them
from the power of the masters who claimed
their flesh and blood, and the right tO do
with it as he saw tit, but the cOlUred race
are left in the hands of another class-a
class which owns both races. Take two
men cast on adesert island, with no means
nf pctting oi-the story of Robinson Cru
soc over again. Friday was Crusoe's slave;
but suppose CrOsoe had raised Friday from
/ IL. .r.,,,l n,I bal tiy.p hin, oil tho
rights possible but told him the only diff
ference between them was that CrusOe
owned the island. Unless Friday had the
wings Of Il blrd or the fins of a fish, To get
away, he would be as much Of a slave
a. though CruS0e owned his body. lie
couldn't even live unless Crusoc let him,
and if Crusoc would take 4 notion to cviCt
him il would he equivalent TO a sentence
of death. Ownership of land is the same
~ chatlcl slavcry-the same in results.
Where the land is all fenced in, there is
slavery, for the land owners can get all
they want from Labor anyway, without
the trouble which attaches to the owner
ship Of slaves.
LOuK At IRELAND TODAY.
The land owners take from the people all
but the bare neCesSaricS of life. II the
Irishmau was a slave he might he tempted
to run away, hut now he comes to the
land owners with his hat in his hand To
beg permission to work.
II has been said that the land question
was only of interest to the farmers. This
is not 50; every human being is interested
in il. 4 man COnnOt navigate the sea or
soar in a balloon to the upper air without
land, for the land produces that from
which his ship or balloon is made. All
productive labor is the simple working up
of laud-altering the condition of its pro-
ducts. We cannot, unless we leave our
bodies behind us and 20 to another sphere,
get rid Of our dependence on the land.
We see everywhere this endless competi-
ton that We strive to guard against
by unions. That pressure comes at
the bottom from an unemployed
man. He produces the pressure
throughout the whole mass. The only
way to relieve the trouble is to put that
man at work.
How can there ever he a greater amount
of labor than the demand for it, in its
true sense, for the demand is in reality a
satisfaction Of human desires. 4 man
having desires has two hands wherewith
to meet them-to clothe his back and feed
his mouth. But he cannot do this unless
he has access to the opportunity, and the
first essential is the raw material of the
planet. II to-day there il any one who
cannot find labor it il because the land is
shut M. Let any man 20 through New
York City. He will see an enormous de-
mand for work, il is true, but the first
thing that will strike him will be the great
teuements, families piled upon families
like bees in Il box, until comfort and de-
cency and cleanliness il impossible, and
little children, this tOrrid weather,
DIE ! FLIES.
Don't the people then need more homes?
Is there any reason why they should not
have them At this moment nearly
half the area of New York city is
made up of vacant lots. Why do not
the capitalists huild2 Because, before
anyone can go and build he must 20 TO
the man who calls himself the owner and
pay a big price. DO away with that dog
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